STOKEHOLD TROUBLES
ATTEMPT TO HOLD UP THE MAORI At 7.30- p.m. yesterday it was rumoured on the Wellington wharves that-the Maori would not leave for Lyttelton last evening. It appeared as if these rumours were correct, becauso tho vessel was tlireo firemen short of. her complement, and although thero wero quite twenty men offering to tako on the job, some of them asked as much as £5 for tho rim to Lyttelton and back. The smallest wage demanded was £2. The local manager of the Union Company (Mr. AV. A. Kennedy), the superintending engineer (Mr. Paterson), and the secretary of the Seamen's Union (Mr. W. T.' Young) held a conference, with the result that one of the Maori's boilers was cut out, and the vessel, having her complement under these conditions, was bnabled to take her 700 odd passengers south to sco the Now Zealand Cup run in Christ-qhu-rch to-day. A further delay was occasioned to the Pateena at AVellingtou yesterday. The deadlock, which arose concerning her manning scale r>n Wednesday still prevailed yesterday, and the Mapourika. was sent on to Picton and Nelson in her stead.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2612, 6 November 1915, Page 7
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187STOKEHOLD TROUBLES Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2612, 6 November 1915, Page 7
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